SN 1006 @desc@A supernova widely seen on Earth in the year 1006, and located about 7,200 light-years away in the constellation Lupus. It was the brightest stellar event in recorded history, getting over ten times as bright as Venus and visible during daytime. The explosion is thought to have originated in the merging of two white dwarf stars.
SNR G074.0-08.5 @desc@Cygnus Loop. A large supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus, it is located about 1,500 light years from Earth, and it measures nearly 3 degrees across. Some arcs of the loop, known collectively as the Veil Nebula or Cirrus Nebula, are seen in visible light. The complete loop is revealed in radio, infrared and X-ray images.
SNR G109.1-01.0 @desc@A 30,000 year old supernova remnant containing a pulsar (rapidly rotating neutron star) in its center, the remaining core the star that exploded. The supernova remnant may be interacting with a nearby star-forming cloud, 
SNR G263.9-03.3 @desc@The Vela SNR. The remains of a massive star that exploded about 12,000 years ago in the southern constellation Vega. At a distance of about 800 light-years from Earth, it is one of the closest supernova remnants known, and one  of the largest and brightest X-ray sources in the sky. The association with the Vela Pulsar, made by astronomers from the University of Sydney in 1968, was direct observational proof that some supernovae form neutron stars.
SNR G266.2-01.2 @desc@Vela Junior. This supernova remnant is called "Vela Junior" because it is younger and smaller than the Vela SNR, located in the same constellation. The supernova explosion that originated Vela Junior was relatively recent, only about 700 years ago, and happened at a distance of only 650 light-years from Earth. Despite these characteristics, there are no known records of this event.
SNR G315.0-02.3 @desc@This is the remnant of SN 185, a "guest star" recorded by Chinese astronomers in 185 AD, the oldest of the eight historical supernova events known within the Milky Way. The remnant is located at a distance of 8,200 light-years and has an angular size of 45 arc minutes, larger than the full Moon.
SNR G000.0+00.0 @desc@Seen very close to the centre of the Milky Way, this feature is approximately 25 light-years in width, and it may have originated in a supernova explosion happening between 35,000 and 100,000 BC. However, it would take 50 to 100 times more energy than a standard supernova to create a structure of this size and energy. It has been conjectured that this  is the remnant of the explosion of a star that was gravitationally compressed as it approached the central black hole.
SNR G350.1-0.3 @desc@A supernova remnant in the Milky Way, seen in the constellation Scorpius, it is possibly associated with a neutron star formed in the same supernova explosion. Its odd, irregular morphology probably resulted from exploding next to a dense gas cloud that prevented even expansion and produced its elongated shape, strikingly different from most supernova remnants.
SN 1572 @desc@Tycho's Supernova. One of about eight supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records, it appeared in early November 1572 and is located within the Milky Way at a distance between 6,500 and 16,000 light-years. The remnant of this supernova explosion was first identified in 1952. The supernova itself was the explosion of a white dwarf whose mass had reached a critical limit by stripping away mass from a companion star. 
SN 1604 @desc@Kepler's Supernova. Appearing in 1604, it is the most recent supernova observed by the naked eye in our own Galaxy. The supernova occurred in the constellation Ophiucus, no farther than about 20,000 light-years from Earth, and it was visible during the day for over three weeks. The supernova remnant from SN 1604 is one of the prototypical objects of this kind.
Cassiopeia A @desc@Remnant from a supernova located about 11,000 light-years away, within our Milky Way. It is believed that the first light from the stellar explosion reached Earth about 3000 years ago, but there are no historical records of any sightings of it, probably due to interstellar dust absorbing optical-wavelength radiation before it reached our planet. The cloud of material left over from the supernova now appears 10 light-years across from Earth’s perspective, and it is expanding at a rate of 4000 to 6000 km/s.